XeroxCool
@XeroxCool@lemmy.world
- Comment on No matter how crooked a mirror is, it always shows you a straight image. 4 days ago:
Intro to space travel and navigational queues: your up or my up?
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
unless you want a battle with them
There’s a month left in the semester, probably. I agree, roll over to not risk some petty bullshit. OP may never have this professor again in their lives.
- Comment on Why do some drivers turn off the signal sound so quickly? 1 week ago:
You could just use the blinker the way they worked for the 50 years prior and lock it on and click it off?
- Comment on Light switches should be glow in the dark 1 week ago:
I have a keychain with a tritium vial. It was advertised as a tent zipper locator. I just put it on my car keys and like looking at the light when it’s hanging up in the dark
- Comment on What's with "*checks notes*" everywhere? 1 week ago:
Life, uh, finds a way Life… Finds a way Life [checks notes] finds a way
Life, finds a way Life [deep breath] finds a way Life [lean away from the microphone to breathe in] finds a way Life [scratches head] finds a way?
Life [gestures vaguely to day care center] finds a wayThey are performative modifiers to add visual context to text. Imagine you’re reading a script for a play. The author adds notes like some of the examples above, in a similar format, in order to better convey what they want the actors to do, by text alone, to better convey the author’s intent to the audience.
- Comment on What's with "*checks notes*" everywhere? 1 week ago:
OK but the dictionary literally modified the definition to I clude “figuratively” because language is alive and unwell
- Comment on What's with "*checks notes*" everywhere? 1 week ago:
[looks to audience]
Imagine being this concerned about typed memes
- Comment on Why do some drivers turn off the signal sound so quickly? 1 week ago:
I have a 2nd gen Ford Fusion and was able to reprogram it via computer and software. 3 by default, now 4. Could do 1-7 IIRC
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
And riding motorcycles around these other cars feels like riding a motorcycle. If Smart can make a NA compliant car, there must be some kind of way to make a near-Kei car compliant.
Out of curiosity, I looked if Smart met Kei regulations with the ForTwo. The officiall Kei variant, the Smart K, only had 2 modifications and 1 restriction. The track width was narrowed and the fenders were slimmed in order to make it 1.5"(30mm) narrower and the only engine available was the 600cc.
And while Americans like to make assumptions about North American markets because they’re generally cross-compatible, they vary greatly. Mexico is full of compacts and ute chassis-mates such as Chevy Aveo/Montana, Fiata Strada/Ram 700, and VW Gol/Saveiro. Remember, the original VW Beetle (“Vocho”) was produced in Mexico until the 90s.
- Comment on Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately? 1 week ago:
Just because a school has an entire ESL department taught by ESL speakers does not mean all ESL speakers are qualified to teach ESL.
- Comment on Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately? 1 week ago:
Lessons are forgotten fast. Ask an adult to do 3 digit multiplication and watch them fumble. Ask about geometry and they’ll ask Google for a calculator. I don’t remember how to do projectile physics. All the same for English. If all a person does is speak the language while writing very simple messages (in comparison to English essays), the memory of complex synthesis is lost fast. If they’re not continuing to do those tasks in life, it’s gone.
- Comment on Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately? 1 week ago:
At average apparent text sizes, you only see ~4 letters clearly at a time, so it’s often enough that you can’t read a whole word at once. From there, there’s so many prefixes, suffixes, conjugations, compounds, and portmanteaus that it doesn’t make sense to just try to memorize the dictionary. What happens when you’re reading a flamboyant author that has tons of theasaraus usage and you come across words you’ve never heard in your life? You use context as best you can, but if there’s familiar roots in the word, you have a better chance of understanding it.
Also
spelt
That is a grain spelled “spelt”
- Comment on Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately? 1 week ago:
I think you’re overestimating the average quality of English as a second/third language education. The internet continuously becomes more accessible across the globe, which has overlap with lower quality and lower frequency of English lessons. There’s more exposure from speakers that don’t use the same native alphabet as well, so use is not so universal. When speaking is the primary use of language, reading is secondary, and writing is tertiary, mistakes get interesting. It’s not too hard to hear the word “extreme” but visualize the spelling from words like dream, team, cream, or beam, all words I could see being more commonly used than extreme. It’s easier to learn “very” as a modifier to a common adjective.
Source: I work in the US with mixed central/south American-born employees and travel to Mexico often. I see casual US-sourced mistakes, of course, as well as those distinctly from Spanish-speaking writers. My Spanish is just as incorrect. If you can say it out loud and still make sense, I’ll vote for non-native English speakers every time
- Comment on Do you use your blinker in a car? 1 week ago:
No no, brights are a fuck-you for having your brights locked on or having swapped bulb types that cannot actually be aimed properly because they fucked with the beam pattern. Or you’re using light bars/pods with non-highway optics, in which case, have my brights and my light bar
- Comment on Do you use your blinker in a car? 1 week ago:
Over 15 years driving, here. I use blinkers all the time. I feel weird if I change lanes without a blinker, even if I know for an absolute fact there’s no one around me… Or even any that can see me. And I mean, I’ll even use it when I do a little road rage for people camping in the passing lane and I pass them on the wrong side, cutting a little close when returning. That being said, a driveway is something I’d make a joke about among friends. It wouldn’t make me judge you as a driver. I’d use the rest of your driving as my judgment material.
My 2 cents on a topic you didn’t ask for: Do not hold down the passing lane. It makes me a little irrational, but only with a totally clear line of sight. There’s plenty of dumber morons that suck at it, so camping sprinkles a little chaos into the hierarchy of the lanes. It does not matter how your speed compares to the limit.
- Comment on Do you use your blinker in a car? 1 week ago:
The “on known participant” is a great term for it. I use it alone on my neighborhood turns, particularly at night, because I can’t properly see around the turn. One of them is totally in darkness, situated between street lights. If there’s a pedestrian crossing, I’d like to give them a little warning. One of my cars has stellar fog lights and gives ample sideways light though, so I recommend using them under 40mph for turns
- Comment on AI slop farms are churning out fake heartwarming videos about Trump figures. 1 week ago:
A decent guy giving to the right people. Ask them if the US government gave enough monetary relief to the Carolininas after their hurricane last year. At some point later, ask if the government gave enough to New Orleans. They’ll flip from saying the mountain folk deserve more but New Orleans is at its own fault for not repairing the levys.
Or don’t ask. You’ll get a dumb answer at best, a racist answer at worst. Either way, it’s not going to be productive unless your goal is to hate them more.
- Comment on Crypto is now as stable as the US economy! 1 week ago:
That was clear in 2020
- Comment on How long before I can sleep on my memory foam mattress? 2 weeks ago:
Alright, your qualified. It just sounded wild that you have a known preferred day for an item I’ve chosen once in my life. Twice? And I went with an air mattress this time so I’m not sure when I’ll actually need to replace it
- Comment on How long before I can sleep on my memory foam mattress? 2 weeks ago:
How many times have you done this?
- Comment on YSK: If the frontpage constantly looks like the same 5 - 8 posts, try sorting by "Hot". 2 weeks ago:
Thanks. I’ll take it as a jump off to diversify again. I stuck to joined communities because my feed was getting steamrolled by dumb, socially adverse, or majorly irrelevant communities. My original communities probably also died off, too.
- Comment on YSK: If the frontpage constantly looks like the same 5 - 8 posts, try sorting by "Hot". 2 weeks ago:
Just tried that and scrolled through seen posts until it ended. I expected it to start off with hottest of the last 6 hours, but is it only the last 6 hours? I guess I don’t have enough communities
- Comment on Every non US market could impose their will, simply by banning imports of products that use, or reference SAE instead of metric. 2 weeks ago:
I’m a digital age, all of that is converted automatically. Bottom right corner, units option. Even when you find suspicious values like 25.4mm (1.000"), there’s so much esoteric sizing out there that it’s not a smoking gun. We use 10mm hex sockets on 3/8" square drive ratchets and put 235mm wide tires on 18" diameter wheels across the world.
- Comment on My favorite song of recent years I can't stop crying to on repeat was AI generated for my own pleasure. Crazy times. 2 weeks ago:
Same as complaining about modern movies being unoriginal sequels without original IP. It’s a revelation that the commenter isn’t actually diving into anything and is only exposed to advertisements and popular media. Yeah, sequels and existing IP are money grabs. It’s amusing to then see the tangential complaint that the annual award ceremonies are trash because they didn’t pick some excellent original movie. OK, but look at what does win. More than half are original/first-time adaptations and Avengers are nowhere on there. But these commenters, just like the mechanisms that lead to something being popular (but not inherently great), are asking for popular recommendations on better media!
Agreed, get out of the dump. If you only listen to pop radio or streaming trending, it’s only going to be pop and pop-adjacent. If you only hear about movies from ads and trending topics, it’s only going to be the equivalent of pop. Browse by genre, but new releases, by awards, whatever. But all of them take effort to find, consume thoroughly, and appreciate - exactly why their numbers flounder next to pop in the first place.
Plus, I’d add, basically every band you forgot about prior to 2010 made a new album in 2020/2021.
- Comment on Will the tariffs lead to a recession? 2 weeks ago:
Has “once in a generation” always meant every 20 years?
- Comment on Which actor did not have a single bad film? 2 weeks ago:
2 people I know watched Mouse Hunt for the first time this month and both hated it. Not really his movie though, I guess
- Comment on Sit down with your co-workers for a beer and everybody smiles. They even make tv shows about it. But sit down with your co-workers for a little opium and everybody gets their panties in a twist. 2 weeks ago:
In my restaraunt experience, those parties worked because it was organic. Part of it is that you’re probably working nights and weekends, making it harder to socialize with people outside your industry or similar CS professions. Part of it is overlap in demographic, probably being under 25, in school or recent graduate, from the same town or 2, and have similar incomes, which dictates affordability of activities.
Moving into a regular office environment means your off-hours are the same as the rest of the working population. All different incomes, ages, kid counts, living locations, etc. At my job, the core department has pretty good overlap and after-hours things are generally organized by department heads. They recognize the cohesion. But sometimes, HR takes a crack at a company-wide gig and it’s awkward. Not drastically, as it’s only about 70 people, but we fall into the preexisting groups, mostly based on department. It’s fine when it’s the Christmas party during normal hours, but it just doesn’t work when it’s a bar after hours.
- Comment on If you could add, remove, or alter one single bodily function, what would it be? 2 weeks ago:
Not effectively. You’ll just have a lower concentration of CO2 in your exhaled air. Maybe it’ll stay the same with the increase in exertion by breathing more, but that’d be a good way to estimate how little energy your breathing consumes compared to proper exercise. And after all that, exercise is pretty slow to burn calories as well. The good news is your brain burns calories by thinking harder, an activity we’re both now involved in
- Comment on If you could add, remove, or alter one single bodily function, what would it be? 2 weeks ago:
If you’re still regenerating tissue, your body is still producing weight. Drastically reduced (I’d guess by 75% total, of which 2/3 is dead digestive bacteria you’d no longer need), but still existent.
Fun fact, you don’t defecate out weight loss, either. You exhale carbon in CO2
- Comment on Should a movie released in 1995 be considered an "old" movie? 2 weeks ago:
Meanwhile in 2025, I’m deciding if I need to wall mount my bidet remote for “anti theft” purposes